DiResta Circular Saw Tips

[Music] all right we got a circular saw with the fresh battery I'm going to show you some circular saw tips Joe alright I'm gonna show you a couple tips that will all work together in unison we have a piece of two inch insulation we're gonna cut on that so we don't cut on a tailor you can see I've caught on my table quite a bit but if you want to save your work surface you can cut on top of it and one thing that's important is to make sure your blade is set high enough to just kiss through the material you don't want to go much further than that because you create a hazard it could be dangerous if your blade is sticking too far out of the bottom so my blades just gonna kiss through the material all right I'm going to show you tip cutting against the square if you have a speed square put it against a material you could follow either side of the plate as a guide but everything up against go slow and steady and this is nice because the wood doesn't fall away while you cut when you cut against the styrofoam and you have a nice square cutting material okay I'm going to show you how to put notches or dedos inside of a two-by-four I made this little jig which falls down on to the 2x4 and this gives us both extremes on our plate on the bottom of our circ saw let me demonstrate okay you see how you could make a dado you cut down a consistent depth whole bunch of wafers here and you just break these out without any knots you get a nice clean break okay I got to show you how to cut a 2x4 with that same technique I talked about earlier with the speed square the reason I'm showing you one a 2x4 is when you cut you want the piece to fall completely away falls completely away for safety this way you get no binding if you let it fall to the ground I'm going to show you a couple of techniques on cutting a bigger piece of wood on sawhorses now sometimes you'll get chip out when the blade comes up out of the wood the way to prevent that is to take a razor blade and give yourself a couple of swipes through the veneer and I like to move over that razor blade so that I'm actually on either side of the saw cut so now as the blade passes through the material it's going to be pulling up the veneer just between the razor blade cuts most conservatives have a nice guide will show you either side of the width of the blade and right here you can see that this is adjustable too so you make some referential cuts and then you make sure that your accurate I'm almost doing this all cotton when you get to the end of the cut sometimes the wood falls away it'll break right there because the weight of the wood is not being supported a way to do that is take a piece of scrap and just stick it onto the back so now the back of your long piece is supported this is good for like a 8 foot long cut or a 4 foot long cut now if I didn't support that it would have twisted away you would have got a nice crack right here if you take a closer look here you see there's no chip out because the razorblade prevented the veneer from breaking out on either side of the line I did it a little bit wide just to accentuate the the effect but if you needed to make a tighter cut just make your razor blade lines closer together I showed you this tip earlier where you can cut through the board to support but it's also a good tip to show you how to prevent chip out if you cut with your veneer face down you won't get chipped out let me demonstrate that you could either cut against the board like this or against another sacrificial board just kiss through and you get a nice clean cut on your finish side which you've always have down let's see how we did you see we got a little bit of chip out on either side of the up cut let's check the back now the back cut is perfect so if you ever need a really good clean cut put your finish side face down away from the saw and you won't have any blowout let's go okay circular saw has its own variable size plate it's good for you to have an offset block so you know what the distance is from your straightedge to the blade so that when you want to set up a fence you know where to put it and let me demonstrate what I mean randomly I need to cut this right here I want to cut that off and I want to set up this fence we're in space does that fence go because I have my offset block and I made it a square so no matter which direction I show it it's in the same distance get myself a mark there give myself a mark there set up my straightedge [Music] make yourself an offset plot so you know the distance between your blade and the edge of your plate I'm going to show you how to make a slide that will correlate with the line exactly what you want to cut it I prepared this off-camera this is just hot glued on here and just like I showed you with you a little offset tab we're gonna basically make this one big offset tab I'm gonna cut off the scrap so that it's always exactly the right size so there now I have what I can trust to be the exact line the blade is going to cut on when I want to do a cross cut on a piece of plywood let's give it a shot in this case I'm gonna kiss the top of sawhorses so I'm gonna cut through the top of the sawhorses but their sacrificial so that's okay and then you know you're perfect every time wherever the edges is exactly what your cut is going to be and you can keep this one you can have this one hang it on the wall a lot of these saws come with this guide for added value but it is more reliable to use something like this you got your track that you made works better every time for making smaller consistent repeatable cuts when you develop your confidence with the circular saw then and only then would I attempt to do a plunge cut it's a dangerous move but sometimes you need to get access to the middle of a wall or a floor board or inside someplace where you can't cut in from the edge and you have to make a plunge cut use the front of your plate as a pivot line up where you need to be you have to hold your guard back to get started it's important and try and stay on that line and just use the front of that plate as a pivot and you can see there I'm almost as big as I need to be from both corners and now finish your corners with a handsaw and there you go and there you go and there you go thank you to Lowe's for sponsoring this video thank you to spike for helping out always be careful using your circular saw and remember never ever lock the guard up with a pencil that's very dangerous don't ever do that safe sawing

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Length: 10min 26sec (626 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 16 2018